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Some Interesting and Fun Facts About Chicago Winters That Will Blow Your Mind

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Chicago Winter, Lake Michigan

During the winter of 2010 one of our friends in a local band was surprised to find that the lock to the band’s trailer which held their instruments had frozen shut. The friend said his band had been playing music together for over a decade and had never seen anything like it, even at their winter show the next week in Fargo, North Dakota. They had to beg a nearby restaurant for some hot water to thaw the lock.

Yes, Chicago winters are brutal to say the least. On January 20th, 1985 temperatures plummeted to -27 degrees. In 1967 23 inches of snow accumulated from just one storm. Not sure what to do, city officials sent the excess of snow to Florida schoolchildren who’d never seen snow before on train cars. There are reports of winter winds being so brutal that city officials hung ropes down State Street to assist residents and during the Christmas of 1983 the city experienced 98 hours of temperatures below zero. Yikes.

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